SEC Approves 8 Ethereum ETFs 🥳

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💵 Weekly Crypto Fundraises & Deals

Here are all the crypto fundraises we heard about this week, ranked by size…

1. xAI, a Artificial intelligence firm, has raised $6B in a Series B funding round, led by  Valor Equity Partners

2. Plume Network, a modular Layer 2 network focused on bringing real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain, has raised $10M in a seed funding round led by Haun Ventures

3. Sonic Foundation, managing governance and treasury, has raised $10M in a strategic funding round, led by Hashed

4. Dora Factory, the leading decentralized governance infrastructure, has raised $10M in a strategic raise, led by Nomad Capital

5. NodeOps, a simplified infrastructure for node operators & developers, has raised $5M in a round, led by L1D_xyz 

🗞️ Crypto News Recap: The Top 5 Stories

Welcome back to This Week in Crypto… everything you need to know in one scannable format. Here are the top 5 stories of the week… 

1. 🥳 SEC approves 8 Ethereum ETFs, including BlackRock and Fidelity: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved eight spot Ethereum. ETFs in an ominbus order, confirming a last-minute scramble to get them through.

   

2. 🚀 ETH sees modest gains following Ethereum ETF approvals, notes $80 million in long liquidations: Ethereum's price modestly rose over the past 24 hours, following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's approvals of spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds.

3. ⚖️ Coinbase makes another push to appeal its case against the SEC, citing lawmakers' FIT21 vote: Crypto exchange Coinbase made a second push in a motion to appeal a judge's ruling in its case involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, pointing to developments over the past week in Congress.

   

4. ⚖️ Congress passes bill banning Federal Reserve from creating a CBDC: The US House of Representatives passed H.R. 5403, the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, sponsored by Majority Whip Tom Emmer (MN-06).The legislation blocks the creation and issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) without explicit congressional authorization, aiming to safeguard Americans’ financial privacy.

   

5. ⚖️ BitGo’s $100M Suit Against Galaxy Digital Can Proceed, Delaware Supreme Court Rules: Cryptocurrency custodian BitGo will get a fresh chance to sue financial services firm Galaxy Digital over the two companies’ failed $1.2 billion merger agreement after Delaware’s Supreme Court reversed an earlier ruling to dismiss BitGo’s lawsuit.

   

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📊 Key Stats of the Week

Here are the most important and interesting stats in crypto this week...

1.  Open interest on ETH futures continues to surge to new all-time highs, now surpassing $15.2B and has increased by nearly $4B on the week.

2. Over 87,800 ETH ($327M) has been sent to exchanges since the news broke that an ETH ETF approval may be incoming. This is easily the highest level of daily ETH inflows to exchanges since January and marks the third consecutive day of net inflows. In total, more than 122,000 ETH has been sent to exchanges during this time. 

3. Last week, there was over $932M of total crypto asset net inflows, led by Bitcoin ($942M), Solana ($5M) and Chainlink ($3.7M). Much of this was driven by positive CPI data and the potential of incoming interest rate cuts. 

4. Everyone is so focused on "fees" right now, but they haven't noticed that Uniswap has now collected more than $20M in interface fees, up 105% since increasing the fee to 0.25% back on April 10th. Since then, Uniswap generally collects more than $250K in fees per day, with an all-time high of $751K. 

5. The ETH balance on exchanges decreased to a six-year low, signaling increased investor confidence.

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📝 Highlights from the Top Crypto Reports

Here are the top highlights from the best crypto research reports this week…

Summer Surge or Market Dip? Key Levels to Watch After NVDA's Earnings and ETH's ETF Approval

About the Author: 1995 Digital Asset Research, serves actionable insights, market research, and Web 3 Tech Tutorials for informed investing. This is an excerpt from the full article, which you can find here.

Introduction

Last week we got the big news with NVDA beating earnings and ETH getting the green light for the ETF. This week is all about follow through and key levels.

As we cross Memorial Day weekend in the United States that usually signals the start of the summer holiday months. With that, we are also inching closer to a major election now just 6 months out.

We are already seeing this impact, particularly in the crypto markets with both parties now politicizing it in an attempt to gain ground with voters. The rhetoric is only going to heat up going forward and market participants are will be getting overly emotional on the topic.

Similarly, with stocks we will see a lot of discourse around the economy and its overall state of being. Biden will tout stocks at all time highs and Trump will attack inflation. The reality is both of these narratives are true. However, stock generally do better than average in the lead up to an election.

The 60 year cycle and the election cycles we have been closely following suggested to us that we could expect a major low in late May for the stock market. So far we are starting to deviate slightly off the 60 year path for the first time this year.

I mentioned last week that we would need to see the SPY start to roll over if we were going to get that correction to buy. It did just that on Thursday. Friday it was unable to make a new high and then it closed the weekly candle red.

The Nasdaq and Dow also showed weakness into the end of the week. So it’s certainly a setup to watch for that correction this week.

In the 60 year cycle we made a low around the 4th of June. Regardless I would expect to see some more downside this week after that reversal candle we got on the time by degrees date from the SPY IPO.

Same thing for crypto.

🎧 Top Crypto Podcasts of The Week

Here are the crypto podcasts that are worth listening to this week...

1. Bankless - Why the Ethereum ETF is Bullish $ETH

2. The Defiant - Quantum Threat: Future Risks to Ethereum

3. Coin Bureau - Why Is Everything SO Expensive?! Here Are The Facts!

4. Nathaniel Whittemore: 71 Democrats Break Ranks to Vote for Commonsense Crypto Regulation

5. Bell Curve: How ETH ETFs Will Reshape Crypto | Roundup

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